good and proper

The good and proper barnsley markets. Slacks fruit and Veg stall. 

Logo job

I have recently gotten one of my first design jobs to create a logo for a friends freelance filming hobby on youtube. He was very happy with the clean outcome and the way the word of his company DARB has been incorporated in the camera design. I am also very happy with how this has turned out and I feel I have gained more experience in this job and now can move onto accept more and gain even more experience. 

Aaron Draplin: Working efficiently in Illustrator

This is where I go for inspiration when I'm branding or trying to make a logo. After watching this video and some of his other videos I have become much more efficient in working in Illustrator. I now copy items instead of deleting them so I have my own little development process right there which I find helpful and really enjoyable. He defines them as "vectors are free" and at any point shows that you should copy each step so when you look back you can see clearly what process you went through. This has really helped me when creating my own logo for myself and I went through this process and now I can't create logo's in any other way. 

Jays P&P: Prototyping

After we opened the can in Illustrator we then used the File Merge option to reopen it in C4D. We looked inside the can layers and dragged these two out. We then deleted the original layer so we could just work on these ones. 

We created a lathe and added them to the can and the top, we then renamed these as Can lathe and Top lathe to stop it being too confusing. This made the can and top 3d and now we had an object to work with and add materials to. 

This was the can that we had created. We would now add some material and textures to make the can look more interesting, we used the texture options to open the design of the can that was made previously which wrapped around the can itself. 

We also added a floor and background to give the can a scene to sit on, we added a compositing tag to the floor and gave it a material colour of our choosing to give it more of an atmosphere. We then added lighting to give the can a sense of presence. We tweaked the settings of the co-ordinates making sure that the light was over our left shoulder as we looked at the can. (This is the main rule f photography)

We rotated the can using the rotate settings and rendered it out creating a nice smooth can which looked nice when rendered. 

This was the completed can, we were challenged to create our own designs for the can with the presets we were just given. 

I made my own using the same presets and swapped out the old texture. I felt that this has given me the initiative and the know how to make more like this in the future, I feel more confident on CD4 and using Illustrator files to make prototypes like this one up to render quality. 

We went through the same process as we did for the can we made for the bottle, The difference here being we added a bottle cap using simple shapes on a new document before then pasting that object into the bottle window. We then played around with lights and shadows to make this.

Alison's lecture

Louise Bourgeois: Insomnia drawings

She was known for her sculptural works in the last 1940's. She commonly used the woman figure as a focus and expressed this through a number of different works such as "Paddle woman" which used two wooden spoons in the shape of a women. She also created another piece called Spider which was a huge structural spider around a cage.

Insomnia drawings are piece of art created from people who suffer from insomnia. Insomnia is a condition which makes people struggle to get any sleep for days of even weeks. The artists used this as a method to try and help her sleep and get tired. She produced 220 of these drawings and most are organised doodles from her unconcience. This is a sense suggests that there is another unconscience state of art used as a method.

Creating the Show Reel

Process

30 motion tests in 30 seconds from Steffen K on Vimeo.

We looked at this footage from Stefan K which is a show reel of work he created in 30 days using a second of motion animation every day. This inspired me to create my own, I loved the clean and professional style and how the transitions work in time with the music to a high standard. 

We collected a piece of audio which we felt complimented the pieces of work we had created which we would include in our show reel. I chose to pick a happier track with a reoccurring beat to help me map when to transition from one piece of work to another. We pressed the Asterix key every time we felt there was a definite beat and this is what we produced.

Once we had edited our audio and was happy with it we opened Illustrator and started to create opening and closing title pages which gave a name to the show reel we were about to create. I chose to create a simplistic and minimal design as I feel this best reflected my work as well as not overpowering the work that would be going into my show reel. I used a Geomanist type face using combinations of Bold and Regular as a nice composition to make the type look a lot more interesting.

I continued to work on the project by importing my different footage and compositions, I stacked these and trimmed them depending on the length and what I wanted from each clip. I tried to time the transition of the compositions to the audio and I feel that this has worked well overall and it makes my piece look interesting and professional. I also used the stretch tool at points to speed up and slow down my footage by fractions to make it easier to fit more of my footage into a smaller space. 

Joshua Juhasz Show Reel 2016 from Josh Juhasz on Vimeo.

I was happy with my final show reel, I feel that the audio compliments the style and rhythm of my work and personal style choices. I think that this explains what I have done over the course of this year well in a single edited video. I am at a point where I am happy to show this to potential clients and employers to give them an idea of the standard of work I am creating and who I am. 

Personal logo development

Here is some development of a personal logo development I am creating for myself for a Facebook page and hopefully later on a Bechance page which will feature the work I make. I am using this as a way to advertise myself and get my name out there, I will be willing to take design jobs just for experience and to build my online portfolio so I am in a stronger position when applying for various placements and job interviews. I also feel that this process is something I enjoy most about design and I definitely feel that I am finding myself in terms of who I want to be as a designer. I love creating logo's and I feel that it is something that I am already very strong at but I can only get stronger with the amount of logo's I make. I am still open to what I want to do with my career which is why I have mentioned that I am a freelancer and illustrator. I felt that this kept it quite broad and meant that I could take on any design challenge which ticked my fancy.